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panicle, each flower consisting of 2 stamens arising from between 2 minute 
calyx-lobes and with 2 ciliate bracts at the base. Female flowers clustered 
on the branches of the peduncle near its base. Calyx-lobes 2, linear ; 
styles 2, very long. Fruit subglobose, ;4,in. long, red or whitish-red.— 
Raoul Choix (1846) 15, t. 8; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 1 (1853) 66 5 Handb. 
N.Z. Fl. (1864) 67 (in part); T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 152 (an part) ; 
Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 158; Schindler in Pflanzenr. Heit 23 
(1905) 108. 
Var. albocarpa 7’. Kirk l.c—Larger and stouter, rhizome sometimes as thick as a 
goose-quill. Leaves larger, sometimes 1} in. diam. Panicles 3-6in.; much branched ; 
branches long. Fruit globose, white, tipped with the black calyx-lobes.—G. albocarpa 
Cockayne in Report Bot. Stewart Id. (1909) 43. 
North AND SoutH Istanps, STEWART ISLAND, CHATHAM ISLANDS: From the 
Auckiand Isthmus southwards; but as the following species has often been confused 
with it, it is difficult to trace its exact distribution at present. It was originally dis- 
covered at Akaroa by Raoul. Var. albocarpa ; Arthur’s Pass, Spencer / Haast Pass, 
Poppelwell ; Clinton Valley, Cockdyne ; common in Southland, Crosby Smith ; near the 
Bluff Hill, 7. Kirk/ Stewart Isnanp: TV. Kirk / Cockayne. 
In the above description I have followed Schindler in limiting G. monoica to the 
plant originally described and figured by Raoul, including also those forms which agree 
with it in the small size, almost glabrous habit, and in the leaves being acutely toothed 
and broader than long. I have kept var. albocarpa as a variety of G. monoica, but it 
has good claims to be considered a distinct species. 
2. G. strigosa Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xv (1883) 322.—Very variable 
in size. Rhizome perennial, woody, putting out from the nodes creeping 
stolons 2-6 in. long or more, and thus forming matted patches of consider- 
able size. Leaves crowded and rosulate at the nodes, petiolate ; petioles 
1-3 in. long, channelled above, rounded beneath, strigose with appressed 
linear whitish hairs; lamina }-14in. diam., orbicular-cordate, more or less 
distinctly 5-8-lobed with the lobes crenate-toothed, 5-7-nerved from the 
base, sparsely pilose with appressed linear hairs above, much more thickly 
clothed on the veins and margins beneath. Flowers monoecious, in long 
slender panicles usually far exceeding the leaves. Female flowers near the 
base of the panicle, and clustered on the branches thereof. Calyx-lobes 2, 
linear, acute. Styles 2, very long. Male flowers occupying 2 of the length 
of the panicle, which towards the top is reduced to a simple spike. Calyx- 
lobes 2, minute. Stamens 2. A few hermaphrodite flowers are usually 
placed between the male and the female. Fruit globose, ,,in. diam. ; 
bright-red or reddish-white—Schindler in Pflanzenr. Heft 23 (1905) 110. 
G. monoica var. strigosa 7. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 152; Cheesem. Man. 
N.Z. Fl. (1906) 154. 
NortTH AND SoutH Istanps, Stewart Istanp: Not uncommon in moist shaded 
places from Mangonui southwards. Sea-level to 3500 ft. November—January. 
Not easily distinguished from the preceding species, but a coarser and stouter 
plant, with more coriaceous and much more strigose leaves, which are bluntly crenate- 
toothed, and seldom acutely toothed, as in G. monoica. It appears to be a more widely 
distributed species than G. monoica. 
3. G. mixta 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvii (1895) 344.—Rhizomes 
slender, creeping. Leaves tufted, 2-4 in. long ; petiole slender, hairy or stri- 
gose; blade about 1 in. long, broadly ovate or ovate-cordate, obtuse, crenate 
or crenate-lobed, both surfaces with scattered white hairs. Peduncles very 
slender, exceeding the leaves, 1-5 in. long, usually much branched below, 
